Hi, First post to this list. Thanks in advance. I run a few Linux boxes at home so I have some experience but I'm not an admin type. Mostly Linux just works and in the past Redhat/Fedora has been easy. However this time (FC3) it isn't as easy. Help! First, and help me make sure this is correct, since this is FC3 I think I'm running Gnome 2.8. Is this correct? The machine is up and on the net. Alsa is working. I can use aplay and get audio playing wave files from disk. The problem is I cannot play CDs. When I insert a CD in the CD drive I automatically get a gnome-cd instance up on the screen but it says 'Drive error'. I get the same response whether I use the DVD or CD drives. The machine has two drives, a DVD+-RW and a CD. FC3 set up fstab as such: /dev/hdd /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 When I look in gnome-cd's preferences dialog I see it pointing at /dev/cdrom, not dev/hdd (or hdc) nor is it pointing at /media/cdrom. Is something supposed to set this automatically or am I supposed to do this based on my hardware configuration? I found this post in the forums: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/printthread.php?t=26621 which seems to imply some sort of udev problem, and maybe a fix, but what the fix is isn't listed and I don't know anything abut udev. I tried the idea in the post . ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom 2. chmod +rw /dev/hdd which allows the CD to start playing, but so far no audio. I've also tried changing the devce in gnome-cd to /dev/hdc, /dev/hdd, /media/cdrecorder and /media/cdrom. All create various error messages when a CD is inserted. (One about permissions. Is this a PAM issue?) Thanks in advance for any pointers you can give me. Cheers, Mark
